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SWsoft renames itself Parallels

Correction, 3:40 p.m. PST Wednesday: This posting misstated Parallels' beta testing plans. Virtuozzo 4.0's first release candidate just entered testing.

SWsoft, a start-up selling the Virtuozzo server virtualization software, has renamed itself Parallels after a product line better known among consumers that lets Windows run on Intel-based Macs.

"When we talk to partners, media, analysts, the channel, and customers, we need to deliver a simple and unified vision. We need to look like a company which has products that fit together well," said Chief Executive Serguei Beloussov. SWsoft didn't initially disclose that its … Read more

Intel, SWsoft in virtualization tech pact

Virtualization start-up SWsoft announced a partnership with Intel Monday to develop software support for technology built into Intel's newer processors.

SWsoft sells two broad categories of virtualization software, Virtuozzo and Parallels. Virtuozzo makes a single instance of Windows or Linux appear, from the perspective of higher-level software, to software to be subdivided into several independent partitions called containers, and it's chiefly used on servers. Parallels lets multiple operating systems run simultaneously on one PC, most notably letting Windows run on Mac OS X systems.

Through the Intel partnership, announced in conjunction with the Intel Developer Forum in San … Read more